Announcing Subsurface 4.8.2

Sep 17, 2018

Announcing Subsurface 4.8.2

The Subsurface development team proudly announces the release 4.8.2 of Subsurface, an open source dive log and dive planning program for Windows, Mac and Linux.

This version brings a number of small bug-fixes and a couple of new features. This also removes a feature (the integration with the old GPSfix webservice that was used for the now obsolete companion apps) and in context with that we are announcing the shut down of that webservice by the end of this year. To avoid any confusion, this has nothing to do with the Subsurface Cloud Storage service, which will of course continue.

Some of the changes in Subsurface 4.8.2:

Desktop: remove “edit dive” from the log menu. Nowadays we edit in place

Desktop: disable UI elements that make no sense during editing [#1445]

Desktop/Map-Widget: add support for filtering of map locations [#1581]

Desktop/Profile: immediately update thumbnail positions on deletion

Mac: fix problem downloading from divelogs.de

Support for videos as well as pictures as dive media

Dive media: paint duration of videos on thumbnails in the dive-photo tab

Dive media: extract video thumbnails

Dive media: Change term “photos” and “images” everywhere in the UI to “media files”

Dive media: sort thumbnails by timestamp

Dive computer support:

add Garmin Descent Mk1

add Shearwater Teric

add Mares Smart Air

add Oceanic Pro Plus X

As always, binaries are available for Windows, Mac, and an AppImage for x86-64 Linux (plus distribution specific binaries for a number of Linux flavors including Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, Fedora, and openSUSE).

Linux: A generic AppImage is available for download at the Subsurface GitHub Release page. Download Subsurface-4.8.2-x86_64.AppImage, make it executablechmod +x Subsurface-4.8.2-x86_64.AppImage and then simply run this file.Linux: Ubuntu: Add ppa:subsurface/subsurface to your software sources; the .deb files in that PPA can also be installed on sufficiently current versions Debian and LinuxMint; see the Downloads page and use http://ppa.launchpad.net/subsurface/subsurface/ubuntu to get our latest release version.